Monastic Family Tree

Similar to “Useful Charts”

Bubbles for each monastic - birth and death day, other names

Lines indicate “disciple of”

Vertically, it’s a timeline. Horizontally it’s based on geography (e.g. Scete, Red Sea, Sa3eed, Tammoh, North along Mediterranean).

Focus on Egyptian monastics

Early

Paul of Thebes

Anthony the Great

Nitria

Abba Pamo (Pambo) - 303 AD - 373 AD: First to join Amoun in Nitria (Amoun is the disciple of St Antony)

Abba Hor, Pior, Or

Serapion of Nitria

Cronius

Bessarion

Chaeremon

Tall Brothers

Isaac of the Cells

John of Egypt

Macarius of Alexandria

Macarius of Egypt

Albianos

Pambo

Pishoy

Sisoes the Great

Ammonas of Egypt

Kellia

Scetis

Abba Macarius

Maximus and Dometius - first under Abba Agabus in Syria, and then under Macarius the Great

St Moses the Strong

Abba Isidore

Abba John 

Abba Arsenius

John Cassian

John the Short

Macarius of Alexandria

Pishoy

Abba Poemen

Samuel the Confessor

Paphnutius - disciple of Abba Isidore and Abba Macarius

Visitors

Jerome

Palladius of Galatia

Need Categorizing

Abba Hedra - disciple of Abba Poemen